(May 8, 2019 at 12:13 pm)Drich Wrote: So God said something would happen, and he proved what he said by adding an oath. 18 These two things cannot change: God cannot lie when he says something, and he cannot lie when he makes an oath.
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So the question remains Can God lie? according to the passage in hebrews he will not lie under oath. can he lie not under oath? as you pointed out in the OT he indeed can if it suits him.
Then yur next question is is God sinning when he lies?
No.
Why?
creator privilege.
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I think Drich probably has the Bible right here. It's not Drich's fault that's that's what it says. It's not God's fault either.
I think the problem is Christianity's PR department. They put out all this misinformation leading people to think that the Christian God is truthful by his very nature.
No, silly. That's only for oaths. LOL that your stupid ass fell for that schtick. There's a sucker born every minute, right? Read the fine print! There are caveats...
It's not just Yahweh's supposed truthfulness that gets the lawyer treatment from Christianity's PR department either. Do you think Christians really practice "Love your enemies." Well sure, in a way. But there are plenty of caveats there, too. The point is, if a Christian wants to hate their enemy, it isn't too hard for them to lawyer up a reason to make that hatred a-okay with God. Same goes with judgmentalism, vengeance, and, bearing false witness. To Christians, the commandments against these behaviors are more a set of advertising slogans than principles they genuinely live by. Again, read the fine print. There are caveats...
